Cool stuff from Steve Rubel: he's setting up Google Reader as the tool to data mine his favorite sources on the internet.
Basically you just subscribe to stuff you don't actually want to read and simply mark them as read periodically (I labeled them to be "Z" subscriptions so they don't pop up together with my other feeds).
SO what can you do with this?
- search for only your favorite blogs/websites for stuff you like. You may ask (as I did) how this could be different from Google Coop. Well, Steve gently replied on Twitter that "The difference is that Google Coop doesn't have a date source". Well I agree and having started using it I can also tell that it's much easier than adding stuff with Google Coop. Theoretically, if you use Google Reader, I can't see any reason for you to use Coop unless you want to use it on a website. Having stuff ordered by date is so much better in a time where yesterday's stuff is already old.
- Check for trends within one or more feeds (this is actually the main porpouse for Steve to set up his system)
If you use Google Reader (and you should), I strongly suggest to try this set up. It will make your search-life (is there anything like that?) easier.
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